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Products·3d ago·all news from August 18, 2026

Anthropic's per-token cost runs 4.4 times the average on Vercel, and developers keep paying

In July, Anthropic captured 65.1 percent of total revenue through Vercel's AI Gateway while accounting for only 30 percent of the processed tokens. This indicates that developers are consistently choosing Anthropic's models despite them costing 4.4 times more per token than the average of competing providers.

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